Let Claude process your mail and pay routine bills

This user routes his paper mail through a virtual mailbox and has Claude go through it. Claude pays routine bills and only brings him in when a bill is more than 20% off its usual amount.

Tool: Claude
Source: @mikekamo on X
Source date: Sep 23, 2026

Credit: this use case was shared by @mikekamo on X. Summary written by Kitbox; see the original for full details.

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Our own starter prompt. Fill in the brackets, then paste it into Claude or your agent of choice.

Starter prompt

Each week I will paste in the text of my scanned mail. Pull out every bill with the payee, amount and due date, and compare each to the amounts I've had before (listed below). Mark anything more than 20% above normal for my review, and put the rest in a payment checklist.